Fossil Alpinism

Bill Moyers does a 16 minute video tribute to his friend Charles Houston who passed away a month ago at the age of 96. Click on this text to...

This 1976 video produced by Yvon Chouinard, follows a day of soloing on Ben Nevis by John Cunningham. The gear is vintage fossil-ware ... i...

Lucy holding up her diamond studs that she got from my sister; she also got a microscope; a gift certificate to amazon.com and some clothes ...

Click on the text to read the New York Times Review of "The Wildest Dream." This is a documentary about Mallory and his ill-fated...

I went out to do a bit of bouldering late in the day, however the rock was pretty wet, and so I did a 30 minute yoga session. Of course, ju...

In between climbing on plastic at the Albany Rock Gym, and climbing at the Gunks, I made a quick trip over to my alma mater. It was great to...

Click on the text to access a great Jackson Hole link to a site called MOUNTAIN ATHLETE. It has a host of good exercises and routines, with...

Brian gives an articulate, and concise summary of Mark's visit touching on the high points: missed plane flight, sluggish starts, broken...

Several fossils got together on Saturday and Sunday. As it was pouring rain on Saturday, Gary-Mark-Hock met at the Albany Rock Gym for a fe...

Click on the text to access this short article by Will Gadd. It was posted on his blog and was written about the subject of mental training...

The enclosed slide is 30 years old. Mike Brochu, Michael Franklin, and I are headed up to do an early repeat of the Black Dike on Cannon. ...

This short video profiles a late afternoon workout on Owl's Head. After a full day of meetings and computer work, the desk jockey turns...

Greg - our traveling alpinist - is back in Africa with Tori, however on the way back from his geology gig, he stopped for some climbing and ...

Reading the current issue of Vertical - a French alpine magazine that gets translated into English - I saw a blurb about a new video with Ca...

A by-product of yesterday's cragging was that Gary and I made plans for a late June trip to the Cordillera Blanca. The enclosed picture...

A 20 second video from the NCS crag. Hock is just back from three days in Manhattan.

Gary the fossil came up to spend the afternoon cragging. He was also very excited because he got the teaching job at the Lenox High School....

The enclosed picture is from the first ascent of the season - last week - of Pinnacle Gully in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington. This ...

Hock makes a plea - from the top of a very windy Owl's Head - for all Fossils to set aside the third weekend in December for the traditi...

Come on Fossils, friends, and wannabes ... how many of Steck and Roper's Fifty Classic Climbs of North America have you done? The enclo...

The same poor, wet weather that has curtailed our rock climbing in the Adirondacks, has also led to "late blight" in our potato fi...

The North Ridge of the Grand Teton (IV 5.7) is the right-hand skyline ridge. I did this route in the late 1970s with South African Richard W...

Click on the text to access Steck and Roper's list of "Fifty Classic Climbs in North America." Count how many of these gems yo...

As the rock climbing season winds down, and the ice is still 4-6 weeks away, I find myself dreaming of trips that might come to pass. Chamo...

Just a mile from school - down in the Cascade Pass - there is a great hand traverse that is totally protected by a large roof and so it is c...

The Second Annual Adirondack Climbing Film Festival was brought to us by Brian and High Peaks Cyclery ... it was incredible! Click on the t...

Click on the text to access Steck and Roper's list of "Fifty Classic Climbs in North America." Count how many of these gems y...

Click on the text, to access a copy of Messner's "Murder of the Impossible." This famous short essay was published in Mountai...

If you have never read it - order a copy immediately - they don't come any better than Tom Patey's "One Man's Mountains....

A recent OxFam study outlined the dire consequences of continued glacial retreat in the Andes from global warming. The picture enclosed sho...

As always click on the images to enlarge the photographs. Both images are 30+ years old ... one from a very cold day on a very difficult ic...

Well it seems that sunny weather, Mexican food, hotsprings, clipping bolts, acres of V5 problems, and long distance tours on nordic gear jus...

I was perusing my personal archival photos, and found this image from my first climbing trip to the Alps (click on the image to enlarge it)....

Brian and High Peaks Cyclery are sponsoring a Fall Adirondack Climbing Festival. (Click on the image to enlarge the font.) There will be ev...

Doing an easy bouldering session at the end of the day ... fantastic view of Hurricane.

One of things we are tossing around NCS - at the moment - is a 10 day March trip to the East side of the Sierras. The standard fun package ...

Click on the text to access a New York Times editorial about the continued evidence that tropical, and sub-tropical mountain glaciers are sh...

I only spent about 90 minutes at the crag, cheering on my students - alpinists in the making - as they cranked off lap after lap. I did fou...

Click on this text to access a superb collection of 1950s Teton mountaineering photographs, featuring: Chouinard, Lev, Gill, Read, Dornan, ...

It is not even October and our foliage is almost at its height, and the leaves are starting to fall. Morning temperatures have already fall...

No crag routes today. No grand alpinism, no summits, no red-points, and no third classing ... Instead today was chicken harvest. We had a ...

Click on this text to access this 15 minute video which has Steve House sharing his thoughts on all the gear he took up the Rupal Face. Some...